Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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